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1893–94 Stoke F.C. Season
The 1893–94 season was Stoke's fifth season in the Football League. Stoke finished the season in 11th position after picking up 29 points of which 27 were claimed at the Victoria Ground. Indeed, Stoke's home form of 1893–94 was excellent with 13 wins from 15 but their away from was terrible as they failed to win any away game during the season. Stoke also competed in the short lived United Counties League which was won on goal average by West Bromwich Albion. Season review League In 1893–94 the Stoke side was broken up with Alf Underwood, Bill Rowley and Ted Evans all losing their first choice status. Eleventh place in the table was achieved, thanks in main to an excellent home record of 13 wins from 15. The only defeat in front of their own fans came shortly after Christmas when Wolverhampton Wanderers won 3–0 whilst eventual champions Aston Villa were held 3–3 in the other game. As their home form was good Stoke's away from was awful picking up just two points a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke City F
Stoke may refer to: Places Canada * Stoke, Quebec New Zealand * Stoke, New Zealand United Kingdom Berkshire * Stoke Row Bristol * Stoke Bishop * Stoke Gifford * Bradley Stoke * Little Stoke * Harry Stoke * Stoke Lodge Buckinghamshire * Stoke Hammond * Stoke Mandeville * Stoke Poges Cheshire * Stoke, Cheshire East * Stoke, Cheshire West and Chester, a civil parish Cornwall * Stoke Climsland Devon * Stoke, Plymouth * Stoke, Devon, near Hartland * Stoke Canon * Stoke Fleming * Stoke Gabriel * Stoke Rivers Dorset * Stoke Abbott * Stoke Wake Gloucestershire * Stoke Orchard Hampshire * Stoke, Basingstoke and Deane * Stoke, Hayling Island * Stoke Charity Herefordshire * Stoke Bliss * Stoke Edith * Stoke Lacy * Stoke Prior, Herefordshire Kent * Stoke, Kent Leicestershire * Stoke Golding Lincolnshire * Stoke Rochford London * Stoke Newington Milton Keynes * Stoke Goldington Norfolk * Stoke Ash * Stoke Ferry * Stoke Holy Cross Northa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aston Villa F
Aston is an area of inner Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Located immediately to the north-west of Birmingham city centre, Central Birmingham, Aston constitutes a wards of the United Kingdom, ward within the metropolitan authority. It is approximately from Birmingham city centre, Birmingham City Centre. History Aston was first mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as "Estone", having a mill, a priest and therefore probably a church, woodland and ploughland. The Church of SS Peter & Paul, Aston, Church of Saints Peter and Paul was built in medieval times to replace an earlier church. The body of the church was rebuilt by J. A. Chatwin during the period 1879 to 1890; the 15th-century tower and spire, which was partly rebuilt in 1776, being the only survivors of the medieval building. The ancient parish of Aston (known as Aston juxta Birmingham) was large. It was separated from the parish of Birmingham by AB Row, which currently e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwen F
Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners". The A666 road, A666 road passes through Darwen towards Blackburn to the north, Bolton to the south and Pendlebury where it joins the A6 road (England), A6, about north-west of Manchester. The population of Darwen stood at 28,046 in the 2011 census. The town comprises four wards and has its own town council. The town stands on the River Darwen, which flows from south to north and is seen in parks in the town centre and next to Sainsbury's located in the town centre. Toponym Darwen's name is Celtic Britons, Celtic in origin. In Sub Roman Britain it was within the Celtic Britons, Brythonic kingdom of Rheged, a successor to the Brigantes tribal territory. The Brythonic languages, Brythonic language name for oak is ''derw'' and this is etymologically linked to ''Derewent'' (1208), an ancient spelling for the River Darwen. Despi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dickson (footballer, Born 1866)
William Alexander Dickson (27 August 1866 – 1 June 1910) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Aston Villa and Stoke and also the Scotland national team. Career Dickson was born in Crail, Fife and played for Dundee club Strathmore before joining English club Sunderland. Sunderland had been unable to gain a place in the inaugural season of the Football League and played friendly matches in the 1888–89 season, Dickson scoring four goals in nine appearances. In 1889 he joined Football League side Aston Villa and did well for the Birmingham-based club scoring 34 goals in 64 matches and earned a FA Cup runners-up medal in the 1892 FA Cup Final . He joined fellow Midlands based club Stoke in time for the 1892–93 season where he scored 11 goals as Stoke enjoyed their best season in the league up to that point. He scored 13 in 1893–94 including five in six in the short lived United Counties League. As well as playing up front Dickson also played at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington Road (Perry Barr)
Wellington Road was a association football, football ground in the Perry Barr area of Birmingham, England. It was the home ground of Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa from 1876 until 1897. History Wellington Road was opened in 1876 when Aston Villa moved to the ground. There were initially no spectator facilities, players changed in a nearby blacksmith's shed, and a Haystack, hayrick was kept on the pitch, which had to be removed prior to matches.Paul Smith & Shirley Smith (2005) ''The Ultimate Directory of English & Scottish Football League Grounds Second Edition 1888–2005'', Yore Publications, p143, However, the ground was gradually improved, with a grandstand built on the eastern touchline and two pavilions built on the western touchline and behind the southern goal line. The ground's record attendance of 26,849 was set for an FA Cup fifth round match against Preston North End F.C., Preston North End on 7 January 1888. Preston won 3–1, and the match was marred by a huge pitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally McReddie
Wallace McReddie (1871–1939) was a Scottish association football, footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C., Middlesbrough Ironopolis, Manchester City F.C., Manchester City, Bolton Wanderers, and Stoke City F.C., Stoke. Career McReddie started his career at local clubs, Lochee and Dundee Harp F.C., Dundee Harp before moving to English club Stoke City F.C., Stoke in 1889. In his 1889–90 Stoke F.C. season, first season with Stoke they had an awful campaign finishing bottom of the Football League and also failed to gain re-election. Stoke joined the Football Alliance and McReddie left the club and signed for Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C., Middlesbrough Ironopolis. He spent three seasons with the teesside club before he re-joined Stoke for the 1893–94 Stoke F.C. season, 1893–94 season where he played 30 league matches scoring 10 goals. At the end of the season McReddie then moved on to Manchester City F.C., Manchester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Forest F
Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham is the legendary home of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and Smoking in the United Kingdom, tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. In the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 Census, Nottingham had a reported population of 323,632. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midlands. Its Functional Urban Area, the largest in the East Midlands, has a population of 919,484. The population of the Nottingham/Derby metropolitan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Clare
Thomas Clare (12 March 1865 – 27 December 1929) was an English international footballer, who played at right-back, and football manager. He began his playing career with Stoke in July 1884, having moved from Burslem Port Vale. He spent the next 14 years with Stoke, playing 251 games in all competitions, helping them to the Football Alliance title in 1890–91. In 1897, he signed with Manchester City via Port Vale before returning to Vale for three years in 1898, helping them to the Staffordshire Senior Cup on his arrival. He also won four England caps between 1889 and 1894. He was appointed as manager-secretary of Burslem Port Vale in 1905, a position he held for the next six years. Early and personal life Thomas Clare was born on 12 March 1865 in Congleton, Cheshire. He was the sixth of eleven children to Thomas Charles and Elizabeth Leigh (née Cottrell); his father was an earthenware manufacturer. He worked as an encaustic tile maker and draughtsman in Wolstanton from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pike's Lane
Pike's Lane was a football ground in Bolton, England. It was the home ground of Bolton Wanderers between 1880 and 1895, and the venue of the first goal scored in league football anywhere in the world. History Pike's Lane opened in 1880, with the first match played against Great Lever on 10September. The ground initially had embankments on both sides of the pitch, and later developments included a grandstand on the northern touchline and wooden terracing behind the eastern goal.Paul Smith & Shirley Smith (2005) ''The Ultimate Directory of English & Scottish Football League Grounds Second Edition 1888–2005'', Yore Publications, p101 Bolton were founder members of the Football League in 1888, the world's first association football league. The first League match was played at Pike's Lane on 8 September 1888, with Bolton losing 6–3 to Derby County in front of 5,000 spectators. Bolton's Kenny Davenport scored the first goal after two minutes, the first goal scored in the Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolton Wanderers F
Bolton ( , locally ) is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and villages that form the wider Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, borough, of which Bolton is the administrative centre. The town is within the Historic counties of England, historic county boundaries of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a centre for textile production since the 14th century when Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area, introducing a wool and cotton-weaving tradition. It was a 19th-century boomtown, development largely coincided with the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. At its peak in 1929, its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of Spinning (textiles), cotton spinning in the world. The Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everton F
Everton may refer to: Places Australia *Everton, Victoria * Electoral district of Everton, Queensland Canada * Everton, Ontario South Africa *Everton, part of Kloof, KwaZulu-Natal United Kingdom * Everton, Bedfordshire, England * Everton, Hampshire, England * Everton, Liverpool, a district of Liverpool, England ** Everton (ward), a Liverpool City Council Ward * Everton, Nottinghamshire, England United States * Everton, Arkansas * Everton, Indiana * Everton, Missouri Sport * Everton F.C., an English football club based in Liverpool, England * Everton F.C. (women), an English women's football team playing in the FA Womens Super League *Everton Tigers, previous name of the Mersey Tigers, a defunct basketball franchise once owned by the football club * Everton de Viña del Mar, a Chilean football team named after the original British football team * Everton F.C. (Trinidad and Tobago), a former Trinidad and Tobago football team People Given name * Éverton Barbosa da H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derby County F
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area on the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby, which was its original county town. As a unitary authority, Derby is administratively independent from Derbyshire County Council. The population of Derby is (). The Romans established the town of Derventio, which was later captured by the Anglo-Saxons and then by the Vikings who made one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era and was home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory and it contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry. Despite having a cathedral since 1927, Derby did not gain city status until 1977. Derby is a centre for advanced transport manufacturing. It is home to engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce and Alstom (formerly Bombardier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
